Angrymog posted:

I love the acrylic standees, hope more games start using them rather than tons of plastic.

Father Wendigo posted:

Uhhhhh

Impermanent posted:

i feel like there's so many of these kind of rpg-in-a-box-with-tactical-combat games out there that I no longer have any idea what is good. i'm still playing frosthaven. is there any place that does a good rundown of these kinds of games?

GrandpaPants posted:

Beast has a new expansion out on Gamefound: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/studio-midhall/beast-shattered-isles

Minis too if you're into that. I actually really appreciate that they've put them as optional instead forcing increased prices and footprints considerably.

Jedit posted:

Final Girl Series 3 has launched and is funded already. Feature Film themes this time are Terminator 2, Hellraiser, Stranger Things (inevitably), Saw and Tremors. Some big shake-ups to the mechanics: some FFs have uniquely different maps, the Terminator-based FF lets you recruit the Killer as an ally against an even worse Killer if you want, and there's an optional Tears system that makes the game a bit easier by letting you cash in negative results for bonuses.

GrandpaPants posted:

Beast has a new expansion out on Gamefound: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/studio-midhall/beast-shattered-isles

Minis too if you're into that. I actually really appreciate that they've put them as optional instead forcing increased prices and footprints considerably.

Jedit posted:

Final Girl Series 3 has launched and is funded already. Feature Film themes this time are Terminator 2, Hellraiser, Stranger Things (inevitably), Saw and Tremors. Some big shake-ups to the mechanics: some FFs have uniquely different maps, the Terminator-based FF lets you recruit the Killer as an ally against an even worse Killer if you want, and there's an optional Tears system that makes the game a bit easier by letting you cash in negative results for bonuses.

CODChimera posted:

gently caress, I don't have any of this game and i'm not even sure I want a fully solo game but I love the whole style and a bunch of the films they're copying

CODChimera posted:

and lastly CMONS next kickstarter is DC Zombicide, I have no idea how anyone is still buying any zombicide content but it could be amusing? at the very least it'll be easy to sell on

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From the studio that brought you the critically-acclaimed Pax Pamir and John Company comes Molly House, the debut design collaboration from Jo Kelly and Cole Wehrle with illustrations by Rachel Ford.

In Molly House, players take the roles of the gender-defying mollies of early eighteenth century London. Throw grand masquerades and cruise back alleys while evading moralistic constables who seek to destroy your community. Be careful, there may even be informers in your midst!

Molly House is a deep, interactive historical game bedecked in a fancy party dress.

Over the course of an hour, players will draft hands of vice cards representing the different gestures, desires, and encounters that were frowned upon by the Society for the Reformation of Manners, a citizen group that sought to stamp out any behavior it deemed deviant in late 17th and early 18th century London. These cards allow players to host festivities with the help of their fellow mollies and create joy. But, those same cards can also lead players to be arrested and to the ultimate ruin of the molly house.

As players encounter the Society’s enforcers, they will often have to pay bribes or may be coerced into becoming informers for the Society. Informers must try desperately to undermine the community around Mother Clap’s Molly House without being discovered by their fellow mollies.

What follows is a novel twist on traditional secret role games where a player’s identity is as fluid as the cards in their hand. This 1-5 player game brims with opportunities for collaboration and coercion that bear the design hallmarks of a Wehrlegig game, but in a way that is approachable and easily playable within an hour.

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This kicked off what has become a years-long collaboration. Eventually we settled into a rhythm where the design was passed between myself and Jo with Drew serving as a helpful developer and intermediary. As a rule, the only thing sacred in the design was the core story and a particular kind of feeling that we wanted to convey: Molly House was a game about the found queer communities of the early eighteenth century and how they created joy and kinship in impossible situations. It was also a game about how those communities were torn apart. Everything else had to work at the service of that. If a mechanism wasn’t working, it was dropped. The game at various times involved dice drafting, bag pulling and any number of other systems. At times it shrunk to be barely a card game and other times ballooned into a veritable Lacerta game. Through it all, we kept our eyes on that central idea and never hesitated to call each other out when the design drifted too far from its heart.

And we liked working together. I know that I can be a difficult, full-contact collaborator, but I found a good partner in Jo. We agreed about the really important stuff. We were patient with the process and tireless about the desire to make something really good. We also agreed that game mechanisms are simply narrative tools, not products, and that the best parts of the play experience come from the folks gathered around the table, not the systems on it, however clever they might be.

Then, this past June, we had a chance to meet in person. Drew and I flew out to the UKGE to scout out the show and meet some of our partners in the industry. For the first time we sat down with Jo in person and played through Molly House. And, to our surprise, it mostly worked. Well, to be honest, it didn’t work at all, at first. But in just a few hours time we did some rapid iteration and soon the design was earnestly firing. Within a few months, we had a stable game core (after perhaps two years of stumbling iteration—surely that can’t be right!). Drew and I took this design to Gen Con and showed it to more friends from the industry and suddenly it seemed like Molly House was going to happen.

Wehrlegig Games was not started as a traditional historical game publishing company. Really, I just wanted a way to get my historical games to market and have more control over their presentation. Over the past several years a real community has grown up around our games, and we want to share more games with that community. I can’t wait for you all to play Molly House, and I hope it is the first of many games like it.

sportsgenius86 posted:

Molly House sounds interesting and honestly, I’m down to give anything by Cole Wehrle a shot.

CitizenKeen posted:

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As with Wave 1 and 6: Siege, we will be asking for a contribution to help with the production and delivery of Wave 2. Unlike Wave 1, we're unlikely to have any outside financial support to help us cover some of the additional costs, which means a higher contribution than we asked for in Wave 1, but we've considered some interesting options to keep that contribution to a minimum.

Week of October 2 - Contributions open
October 31st - Last day for contributions
November to December - Working with the factory to ensure paper files are ready for printing and receiving final proofs.
December to January - Estimated start of printing.

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For anyone who has already did the contributions with wave 1,you will NOT be asked for any additional contribution when wave 2 is getting ready to ship. You initial contribution covered shipping for both waves. This is only for those backers who ordered a language product outside of EN and have not be asked for a contribution.